noun
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A holy war undertaken by Muslims.
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An aggressive campaign for an idea.
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A personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and/or against evil.
verb
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To participate in a jihad.
Examples of jihad in a Sentence
Mahommed Ahmad (the Sudanese mandi) proclaimed a jihad in 1882.
Thereupon Fodio unfurled the green banner of Mahomet and preached a jihad or religious war.
He had already declined to support the jihad.
He thinks that his principal aim was simply the formation of a compact Mahommedan state, which was, indeed, in the issue destined to be the instrument of the jihad,.
No other cause has done more to motivate al-Qaeda to wage jihad against the US.
The fact is that there were and are young men who wanted to go and fight jihad.
But the fact that joining the jihad has become something trendy is very disturbing.
All the people who did jihad will be called from the gate of jihad.
Would the Taliban or Al-Qaida have emerged without US support for the Afghan jihad?
They did not wage jihad against anyone who refused to submit.
There is a sense in which the lesser jihad is both ' Holy War ' and ' Just War ' .
How do I challenge Islamic fundamentalists and how do I challenge Islamic jihad?
In early December, jailed cleric Ahmed al-Khalidi renounced his previous endorsement of violent jihad.
In its charter, Hamas calls for a global jihad -- like the suicide bombings last year in London, the city I represent.
The paper provides a detailed assessment of the behavior of the security forces and the handling of the Islamist militia group Laskar Jihad.
It came within a narrow margin of setting the Mahommedan world ablaze against Great Britain and France - on which Germany had counted - a catastrophe averted by the accident that the Sherif of Mecca opposed the Jihad and divided Islam.
Jewish fundamentalism and the settlers movement needs Hamas and Islamic Jihad and vise versa.
Nothing should stop me from Jihad, be they vanities of the world, or close relationships.
Holy War The concept of jihad has also been used as scriptural evidence of Islamâs supposedly inherently violent and bloodthirsty nature.
Saheb says that " we Iraqis are waiting for a sign from the president to declare a jihad.
The word jihad itself means " war, battle, holy war " .
In support of the policy, and to emphasize the religious character of Ottoman war aims, a Jihad or Holy War was proclaimed by the Sultan as Caliph of Islam.
In October 2003, an Israeli warplane bombed an Islamic Jihad training base deep in Syria.
Mahommedans who do not acknowledge the spiritual authority of the Ottoman sultan, such as the Persians and Moors, look to their own rulers for the proclamation of a jihad; there has been in fact no universal warfare by Moslems on unbelievers since the early days of Mahommedanism.
An insurrection had occurred in Bitlis, the Hamawand were still virtually outlaws and the whole country refused to respond to the call to a jihad against the British.
The Crusade was now at last answered by the counter-Crusade - the jihad; for though for many years past Saladin had, in his attempt to acquire all the inheritance of Nureddin, left Palestine unmenaced and intact, his ultimate aim was always the holy war and the recovery of Jerusalem.
In the belief of Moslems every one of their number slain in a jihad is taken straight to paradise.